What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

Flying high in the dark sky, crazy and free, I was happy visiting the worlds and giving death or madness to the people. Either was liberation.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.

The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.

The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...